Title Evenings on the Thames; or, Serene Hours and What They Require (Two Volumes)

Binding Hardcover

Book Condition Very Good

Jacket Condition No Jacket

Type Hardcover

Size 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

Publisher London Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green 1864

Seller ID 000667

Three quarter green leather over marbled boards. Banded spine embossed in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Boards are rubbed and edge worn. A couple of nicks to edges of boards. Corners wearing through. Bits of loss to leather. Spines faded. Previous owner's bookplates in front end papers. Pages lightly toned from age with very occasional foxing. Bindings sound. Volume I is 554 pages and Volume II is 582. Kenelm Henry Digby (1797 - 1880) was an Anglo-Irish writer, whose reputation rests chiefly on his earliest publication, The Broad-Stone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentlemen of England (1822), which contains an exhaustive survey of medieval customs. The book inculcated readers with ideas of chivalry and staunch Catholicism and stressed the importance of the heart's knowledge over intellectual learning by presenting historical figures as role models. Digby's revival of medieval principles helped young men of his day construct their idea of what being a "gentleman" means.